Can I eat bird's nest if I have skin allergies

Many people think that skin allergy is a minor illness. In fact, this view is wrong. Skin allergy is a common skin disease. Skin allergy is not a minor illness. If not treated in time, skin allergy may cause great harm to our body. Therefore, once we suffer from skin allergies, we must actively seek treatment and do a good job of dietary care for skin allergies.

Patients with skin allergies should know what foods are suitable for them to eat and what foods they should not eat randomly in terms of dietary care. So, can patients with skin allergies eat bird's nests? Let's take a look at the introduction about skin allergies below.

Bird's nest, as the name suggests, is the swallow's nest. However, it is not the nest of an ordinary swallow, but the nest of a special kind of swallow - the swiftlet.

The swiftlet belongs to the class Aves, family Swiftidae. It is a migratory bird that flies from Siberia and other places to natural caves on the tropical coast from December to March of the following year to breed. The swiftlet is smaller than the swallows we usually see. The feathers on its back are gray-brown with a golden luster, its wings are long and pointed, and its four toes all grow forward. This bird has well-developed mucus glands in its throat. The saliva it secretes can condense into a solid in the air and is the main material for building its nests. Swiftlets lay eggs in March and April every year. Before laying eggs, they fly over the sea and in the sky every day, sometimes up to several thousand meters, breaking through clouds and fog, sucking rain and dew, and eating insects. After digestion, they drill into the steep, shady, and high-altitude cracks of cliffs and deep in caves, spitting saliva to build nests. It will take about 20 days to build. The swallow's nest is crescent-shaped, like a human ear, with a diameter of 6 to 7 centimeters, a thick base, thin walls, and weighs about 5 to 15 grams. The outside of a swallow's nest is neat, but the inside is rough, like a loofah network. The entire bird's nest is white, crystal clear, and elastic, attached to the rocky cliff. It has always been known as "a rare and famous medicine" and "an oriental treasure".

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bird's nest can nourish yin and moisten dryness, replenish qi and tonify the middle, treat deficiency, cough, sputum, asthma, hemoptysis, and chronic dysentery. It is suitable for patients with weak constitution, malnutrition, chronic dysentery, malaria, sputum and cough, chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, emphysema, tuberculosis, hemoptysis, vomiting blood, and stomach pain.

Let’s take a look at the top ten benefits of bird’s nest:

1. Nourish the lungs and yin, stop lung deficiency cough, and reduce lung qi pathology. Including asthma, shortness of breath, chronic cough, blood in sputum, hemoptysis, hemoptysis, bronchitis, sweating, and low fever due to lung yin deficiency.

2. Nourish the stomach, stop stomach coldness and vomiting. Nausea, retching and intestinal sounds caused by gastric yin deficiency.

3. For any symptoms of weakness after illness, tuberculosis, and deficiency of vital energy, eating bird's nest can nourish yin and regulate the middle.

4. Antiperspirant, excessive sweating due to qi and spleen deficiency, frequent urination, and nocturia.

5. Nourish yin and moisten dryness, making human skin smooth, elastic and shiny, thereby reducing wrinkles.

6. Bird’s nest contains a variety of amino acids. If infants and children eat it regularly, it can help them grow in wisdom, improve their thinking, resist sensitivity, and make up for their congenital and acquired deficiencies.

7. If pregnant women eat it during pregnancy, before and after delivery, it can help to stabilize and nourish the fetus.

8. Bird's nest is a natural food that increases body fluid and contains a variety of amino acids, which have inhibitory and counteracting effects on esophageal cancer, pharyngeal cancer, gastric cancer, liver cancer, rectal cancer, etc.

9. All sequelae caused by electrotherapy and chemotherapy, such as dry throat, sore throat, swelling, constipation, hoarseness, nausea, etc., can be significantly improved by eating bird's nest.

10. Bird's nest is sweet and mild in nature, nourishes yin and moistens dryness. It is a nutritious and beneficial food with health-care and therapeutic effects. It is a popular health food.

We introduced above that skin allergy is not a minor disease. We must actively treat skin allergies. If skin allergies worsen, it will easily cause greater harm to our body. The bird's nest mentioned above is a very nutritious food. Eating bird's nest regularly can make the skin smooth. Therefore, patients with skin allergies can eat bird's nest.